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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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Unified endpoint management for enterprise buyers

Asked as “unified endpoint management platform”, and as “device management tool for laptops and phones”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
85%
Clear leader
85Microsoft Intune10Omnissa Workspace ONE02Hexnode UEM02others

85% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Microsoft Intune85%5%73endorsed leader
02Omnissa Workspace ONE10%20%71accepted challenger
03Hexnode UEM2%33%12criticized challenger
Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
06ManageEngine Endpoint Central0%19%42accepted challenger
08NinjaOne0%19%16accepted challenger
09SOTI MobiControl0%18%11accepted challenger
05Ivanti Neurons for UEM0%17%48accepted challenger
07IBM MaaS3600%17%24accepted challenger
04Jamf0%12%52accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each

One product takes 85% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. One product carries a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

Nine of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Qwen 3.7 Flash and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Omnissa Workspace ONE
20%
14 of 71 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“This is the most critical platform to avoid or scrutinize heavily based on recent findings.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Ivanti Neurons for UEM
17%
8 of 48 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Ivanti stands out as the platform requiring the most careful consideration. The company has experienced repeated security vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in the wild” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
ManageEngine Endpoint Central
19%
8 of 42 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“ManageEngine Endpoint Central is also labeled as "High Caution/Avoid Unless Specific Fit" due to its "Poor scalability for very large fleets"” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
Jamf
12%
6 of 52 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“excellent for Apple estates, but a large enterprise with broad Windows, mobile, and mixed-OS requirements should be cautious” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

80 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1175 links across 270 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Venn39 answers · 52 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Guideflow38 answers · 38 citations · 11 models
26 answers · 26 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Microsoft25 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
25 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
vendor site · ManageEngine23 answers · 30 citations · 13 models
23 answers · 28 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Miradore23 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
21 answers · 21 citations · 11 models
20 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
vendor site · CyberPress19 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 19 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “unified endpoint management platform”, “unified endpoint management platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Microsoft parent site
Microsoft Intune 85%
85%3292,240,000403,136
Omnissa omnissa.com
Omnissa Workspace ONE 10%
10%1333902145,805 company4
ManageEngine parent site
ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus 2%, ManageEngine Endpoint Central 0%
2%2048,100675
Hexnode hexnode.com
Hexnode UEM 2%
2%642605174,074 company46
Jamf jamf.com0%13122,2001,68193,863$7447
Ivanti ivanti.com
Ivanti Neurons for UEM 0%
0%989,90063664,352 company$179322
IBM parent site
IBM MaaS360 0%
0%57201,00034,098
NinjaOne ninjaone.com0%38818,100610316,268$17,226118
SOTI MobiControl soti.net0%23880557,504$19,22414
JumpCloud jumpcloud.com0%32112,100244108,479$8,61280

Google's top ten for the two searches hold 11 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (gartner.com, syncrosecure.com). The first result for “unified endpoint management platform” is gartner.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best unified endpoint management platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which device management tool for laptops and phones would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade unified endpoint management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best unified endpoint management platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a unified endpoint management platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which unified endpoint management platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceManageEngine Mobile Device Manager PlusChanged
Three alternativesIBM MaaS360, Jamf, Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune
Six alternativesHexnode UEM, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Endpoint Manager, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
One alternativeManageEngine Endpoint Central
against: Omnissa Workspace ONE
no first choiceagainst: Ivanti Endpoint Manager
GPT-5.4 miniMicrosoft Intune
One alternativeIvanti Neurons for UEM
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for MDM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Six alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Kandji, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl
against: Citrix Endpoint Management, HCL BigFix, IBM MaaS360
Microsoft Intune
One alternativeJamf
against: Ivanti Neurons for UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Scalefusion
no first choiceagainst: Broadcom, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Microsoft, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft Intune
Four alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE, Tanium Platform
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesHCL BigFix, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Broadcom, Citrix Endpoint Management, Hexnode UEM, Ivanti Desktop and Server Management, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, JumpCloud, Kandji, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Perplexity SonarMicrosoft Intune
Two alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Four alternativesIBM MaaS360, Jamf, SOTI MobiControl, Scalefusion
no first choiceMicrosoft Intune
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, Zecurit
no first choiceagainst: Jamf, Microsoft Intune, SOTI MobiControl
Grok 4.20Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesIBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Hexnode UEM
against: IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE, Pulseway, Syncro
Mistral SmallMicrosoft Intune
Two alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesHexnode UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
no first choice
Six alternativesCisco Meraki Systems Manager, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Microsoft Intune, NinjaOne
Microsoft Intuneagainst: Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: IBM MaaS360, Omnissa Workspace ONE
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Intune
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: ManageEngine Endpoint Central
Microsoft IntuneHeld
One alternativeOmnissa Workspace ONE
against: Jamf
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, JumpCloud, Kandji, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf
against: Atera, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Kandji, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
against: BlackBerry UEM, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons UEM
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceOmnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: Ivanti Neurons for UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
Qwen 3.7 FlashOmnissa Workspace ONE
Four alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune
Microsoft IntuneChanged
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Four alternativesCitrix Endpoint Management, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf Connect / Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
against: Omnissa Workspace ONE, Scalefusion or Hexnode
against: Atera, Citrix Endpoint Management, Jamf, Kandji, LogMeIn, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SCCM, Syncro, TeamViewer
Kimi K2Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesBlackBerry UEM, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, JumpCloud, Kandji → Iru, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: 42Gears UEM, BlackBerry UEM, Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
GLM 4.7 FlashXMicrosoft Intune
Five alternativesIBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
no first choice
Eight alternativesAction1, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, JumpCloud Directory Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
no first choiceagainst: BlackBerry UEM, Codeproof, Hexnode UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE
MiniMax M2.5no first choice
Four alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONEChanged
One alternativeJamf
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Hexnode UEM
Four alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesBlackBerry UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Ivanti Neurons for UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:24no03 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:12yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:12yes1823 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:27yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:22yes246 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:38yes107 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 13:20yes2139 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:32yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:43yes1046 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:19yes1922 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:50yes2318 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 07:55yes519 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 12:56yes1610 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 13:14yes44 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:55yes923 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:01yes215 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:51yes206 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:42no05 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 12:04yes2330 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:31yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 11:00yes1020 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:47yes1523 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:23yes1523 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 07:45no011 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:33yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:28yes512 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:56yes2130 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:49yes195 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:09yes248 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:20yes1210 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:36yes2572 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:19yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 13:31yes1335 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:32yes2442 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:09yes564 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:55yes2437 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:46yes188 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:58yes37 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:52yes1824 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:15yes174 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 13:16yes2212 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:53yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:45yes2128 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 07:41yes51 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:15yes930 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:54yes2327 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:36yes2282 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:40yes1640 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:14yes2614 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:43yes311 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:09yes426 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:58yes1610 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:57yes189 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:08no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:42yes2455 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:40yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 12:54yes1475 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:43yes2438 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:31yes2532 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:31yes518 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 12:15yes3011 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:42yes37 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:23yes2725 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:04yes238 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:19yes257 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:14yes54 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:28yes2545 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:08yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:51yes1790 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 13:52yes2224 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:16yes2549 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:44yes2245 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
42Gears read as 42Gears SureMDM
Cisco Meraki read as Cisco Meraki Systems Manager
Citrix read as Citrix Endpoint Management
Hexnode read as Hexnode UEM
Ivanti read as Ivanti Neurons for UEM
Ivanti (Endpoint Manager / EPMM / Sentry) read as Ivanti Neurons for UEM
Ivanti Neurons read as Ivanti Neurons for UEM
Kaseya read as Kaseya VSA
ManageEngine read as ManageEngine Endpoint Central
Omnissa read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
Omnissa (Workspace ONE) read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
SOTI read as SOTI MobiControl
Unresolved, counted raw
Codeproof
IBM MaaS360 with Watson
Ivanti Desktop and Server Management (DSM)
Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), on-premises
Ivanti Neurons UEM
Ivanti Neurons for MDM
Jamf Connect / Jamf Pro
Kandji → Iru
MaaS360
Samsung
Scalefusion or Hexnode
Swif.ai
Tanium Platform
TeamViewer MDM
Zecurit
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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